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In this week’s New Yorker

The March 13 issue is especially strong in both the feature well and the back of the book. I was edified by:

Jake Halpern’s report on a safe house in Buffalo designed to help refugees making their way to Canada from the U.S.;

“The Polymath,” the ever-brilliant Alec Wilkinson’s profile of Jack White, whose music (the White Stripes, etc.) has never interested me but who turns out to be a fascinating, adventurous, productive guy;

“Donald Trump’s Worst Deal,” Adam Davidson’s excellent follow-the-money expose of the current president’s unlawful business dealing with a legendarily corrupt Azerbaijani family — there are clearly innumerable stories like this to be told, not likely to result in impeachment given the Republican strangehold on Congress, but it’s an in-depth account of the thriving world of international corruption;